April 9, 2008The response to my previous article is the most activity this blog has seen yet. But I do need to make some clarifications, and highlight at least one thing that has happened as a result of the brouhaha.
First, I should not have made it sound as if I thought Linden Lab’s misattribution by allusion of [...]
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April 2, 2008I was just watching the video of Rep. Ed Markey’s committee hearing yesterday about virtual worlds, during which Philip Rosedale (CEO of Linden Lab, creator of SecondLife®) and others testified. Rosedale showed a machinima that included images of several parts of the International Spaceflight Museum (ISM), of which I am a co-founder and CEO. That’s [...]
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March 13, 2008An interesting online-only conference starts in a few days:
While their claim to be the only online conference is a bit inaccurate, it still seems like a worthwhile way to spend some time for those of us interested in the development of the metaverse.
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March 5, 2008Troy McConaghy just posted a message to the Qwaq MICA group about a brand new Virtual World, Tomorrow Space from a company called Transmutable Networks.
I naturally immediately signed up for an account (katlemieux) and briefly explored this Web-based world, which only opened to the public this Monday. So far, they have two types of “rooms” [...]
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March 5, 2008In a recent post, I promised a link to the proceedings from a NCOIC session on Networked Virtual Environments. Bob Marcus just sent this info to the Serious SecondLife in Boulder meetup group with the link:
The Proceedings of the recent NCOIC Session on Networked Virtual Environments are available at http://semanticommunity.wik.is/Adaptable_Computing_Infrastructure (middle of the page). [...]
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February 25, 2008I was just following some links found in advance slides from an NCOIC conference that’s taking place on Feb. 26th in Denver, when I clicked a link in one of the sites and stumbled across information about a project New Media Consortium (NMC) has announced. They are embarking on a 2-year collaboration with Sun Microsystems [...]
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February 23, 2008I found this video on a networking site I’ve just joined, about some 3D software I wrote about here a couple of weeks ago, when this blog was brand spankin’ new, 3DXplorer. I left a note for the creator asking permission to link to it from here, but then I found out his video [...]
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February 19, 2008The Virtual Worlds preservation workshop at Stanford, funded by the Library of Congress’ NDIIPP, is over now. Partner institutions besides Stanford are University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland and Rochester Institute of Technology. I attended via Skype conference call with text chat on the side, augmented with a dynamically-updated Google Doc page where [...]
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February 18, 2008After the Metaverse U conference for the past two days you’d think I was ready to take a rest or maybe get some real work done, but no! Today and tomorrow I’m participating (remotely, via Skype conference call) in a workshop with some of the same people at Stanford. This time, we’re working with the [...]
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